Data Analyst

Eligibility criteria

Minimum age: 22 years old. Applicants must be nationals of or legal residents in the country of assignment.

Description of task

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the RBAP/Regional Advisor for the Socio-economic Recovery & Livelihoods Programme, the UNV Data Analyst will:

• Manage and analyze country-level livelihoods data and prepare required charts/graphs.
• Follow up with the UNDP country offices and other entities on data collection and compilation.
• Collaborate with the team on the dashboard development, and independently add new features including managing and feeding data to dashboard.
• Provide technical support to any new initiative regarding data collection, analysis, reporting, monitoring as required.
• Knowledge sharing, providing support to other team members and conducting orientations on use of products developed and managed.
• Maintaining and updating dashboard as soon as new features are developed.
• Preparing documentation and clear guidelines of the technical work (e.g. documentation for data analysis steps, code documentation (class, function, etc.).
• Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications/Requirements Required degree level: Bachelor degree or equivalent Education - Additional Comments:

University degree in Computer Science, Statistics and other related fields.

Required experience: 36 Months Experience remark:

• At least 3 years of relevant professional work experience in data management, database development, programming and web development.
• Hands on experience of Advance Excel and some other analytical tools (Power BI, Stata, ArcGIS/QGIS, SPSS).
• Previous experience with dashboard development and data visualization.
• Experience in PHP7 (Symfony4 framework), modern JavaScript (Node/ReactJS, ES6 and other front-end techs e.g. bootstrap, foundation, etc.) is an advantage.
• Experience with any other programming language (e.g. R, Python).
• Knowledge and hands on experience of relational databases and tools (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.). As well as knowledge of modern non-relational databases would be an advantage.
• Good knowledge of math and basic statistics is highly required for the job.
• Good teamwork, presentations, communication, problem solving and quick learning
• Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines.
• Have affinity with or interest in UNDP volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN System.

Language skills:

• English(Mandatory), Level - Fluent

Area of expertise: Software and applications development and analysis, Database design, administration and maintenance Driving license: No Competencies values:

Commitment and Motivation, Communication, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity, Working in Teams

Application procedure:

* Not yet registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

First register your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup.

Important: After creating your account, complete all sections of your profile and submit it. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink. Lastly, select the special call to which you would like to apply.

* Already registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

First update your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/profile.

Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink to select the special call to which you would like to apply.

Watch this video for the specific steps you must follow to register on the UN Volunteers' Global Talent Pool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT5uJ_FolWU

Application deadline: 03 April 2020